Female mosquitoes are targeted because only they bite and drink blood, thereby spreading diseases such as malaria and dengue fever.

GENETICALLY engineered “toxic male” mosquitoes could help kill off disease-spreading females. Scientists say the gene-hacked ...

Mosquito-borne diseases like dengue fever cause hundreds of thousands of deaths every year and a new venture wants to change ...

"Toxic male technique" genetically engineers male insects to produce insect-specific venom proteins in their semen.

Japanese encephalitis, a potentially deadly mosquito-borne virus, has likely been detected in a resident in regional Victoria ...

Scientists from Australia have developed a groundbreaking technique involving genetically engineered mosquitoes with ’toxic’ semen. This method could be a new weapon to combat deadly mosquito-borne ...

Dengue fever is a viral disease transmitted through the bite of infected Aedes mosquitoes. The disease causes an acute illness with symptoms such as headache, high fever, exhaustion, severe muscle and ...